ZZ Top - Chartreuse - from their new CD - "La Futura"

Here's a first-listen of "Chartreuse" from ZZ Top's "Texicali" EP

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The first new studio album from ZZ Top in nine years is LA FUTURA, set for release September 11 by American Recordings. The album harks back to the hallmark raw sound of the band's formative years and will, inevitably, be considered a return to form on multiple levels. LA FUTURA, produced by Rick Rubin and Billy F Gibbons, the band's guitarist/singer, finds the legendary group infusing the newly recorded work with the electric blues/roots approach that typified ZZ Top's earliest work while, at the same time, reaching for new sonic horizons. At its fundament, this is the incarnation of the band whose influence resonates today with such artists as The Black Keys, Jack White, Queens of the Stone Age and many others.
Now celebrating their 42nd year with the same line-up, Gibbons along with bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard have come up with ten tracks that reflect the band's intuitive take on rock brought to new, sometimes surreal, plateaus. "We thought long and hard about what this album should be," commented Gibbons. "We wanted to recall the directness of our early stuff but not turn our backs on contemporary technology. The result of this melding of the past and the present is, of course, LA FUTURA."
The fact that the new album's title is in Spanish is a nod to an early ZZ Top tradition manifested in the titles of some of the band's earliest albums including Tres Hombres, Fandango!, El Loco and Degüello. Known for decades by the sobriquet "That Little Ol' Band From Texas," ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Keith Richards in 2004 and has maintained a very active international and domestic touring schedule over the intervening years. They signed to American Recordings a few years ago and have been working on what would become LA FUTURA in spurts since then. Last year they finally entered Foam Box Recordings in Houston, working full time to lay down the tracks that would comprise LA FUTURA. Additional recording for the album took place at Shangri La Studios in Malibu, CA.
The four songs that kick off LA FUTURA, "I Gotsta Get Paid," "Chartreuse," "Consumption" and "Over You" debuted last month as Texicali, a digital preview collection exclusively available from iTunes that achieved significant critical and sales success. "I Gotsta Get Paid," performed by the band in video spots for the Jeremiah Weed line of beverages raised awareness of the song that was inspired by the 1990's underground Houston rap song "25 Lighters" by DJ DMD with Lil' Keke and Fat Pat. USA Today named ""I Gotsta Get Paid" its top pick of the week, citing the band for unleashing "its trademark grit and grease in a raw, bluesy rough-and-tumble treatment..." No Depression called "Consumption" "a grinding groove with a bit of Texan funk squeezed into the grooves." Music Radar analyzed "Consumption," noting, "The groove is fat, crunchy and full of swagger," summing the effort us as "ZZ Top crankin' up some fresh, vital roadhouse blues."

The band will embark on a string of U.S. dates, highlighted by a rare New York appearance at The Beacon Theatre the day after the release of LA FUTURA. A major multi-tiered marketing campaign will coincide with the release of LA FUTURA, bringing the good news that, at long last, there's a new ZZ Top album to the nation and the world.

LA FUTURA track listing:
1. I Gotsta Get Paid
2. Chartreuse
3. Consumption
4. Over You
5. Heartache in Blue
6. I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose, You
7. Flyin' High
8. It's Too Easy Mañana
9. Big Shiny Nine
10. Have a Little Mercy

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[TorontoTips]

Get serious! Future is THE BEST ZZ Top album since the 70's - LOVE IT!

[Lester Nesterenco]

I can't listen to ZZ in the truck no more because my foot.. my foot automatically goes clear the floor!

[dans891]

dat bass is frickin' epic

[MoSkont1]

Recipe : take a glass of "Green Grande Chartreuse" (Directly made by the Monks in the French Alps) + a fantastic bass line + an incredible old school sound = a great ZZ Top track. Always the same but always different. And with always the same crazy Texan taste...

[artmusic101]

Billy Gibbons Rules on the Guitar!!! Texas Style!!

[Audioslave3]

Me too.

[pmccachren]

Sounds so 70"s,Alright!

[lari21151]

Im glad they havent changed theyr sound from eliminator. The riff is something incredible!

[whatever888888888888]

I could go a shot right now: Chartreuse!

[rhoonalpin]

vive la chatte-rousse !!

[alexas laughlin]

Yeah there is ... Frank Beard is once again blowing our minds without our permission!